Barking Up the Right Tree
By Ooi Kok Chuen
October 2017 PENANG PALETTE
Her accomplishments using colour and her unique incorporation of eucalyptus bark in her works are among the qualities that set Datuk Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir apart as an artist.In the finest example of Nature in painting, Datuk Sharifah Fatimah Syed Zubir has “bud-grafted” the bark of the eucalyptus onto her canvas, with its rusty-reddish brown permutations, uncanny textures and raffish edgy tendrils.The barks, tempered, treated and tenderized, are blended seamlessly with acrylic paint – sometimes with a little modeling paste...
Ooi Kok Chuen
is an art-writer and journalist, and the author of MAHSURI: A Legend Reborn (Ooi Peeps Publishing), an adult contemporary fantasy “movel” (a novel conceived as a mock movie) spun from a local legend.
